Another thing to try would be:
- Before running Tidy, Find and Replace all tabs with an HTML entity that
you don't already have in your code.
- Run Tidy on the resulting mess with indenting turned off.
- Replace all of the entities in the resulting code with tabs again.
Voila!
If you use BBTidy with BBEdit on the Mac, just write a little AppleScript to
do this for you. Tabs are searched for using "\t".
______________________
ANDREW GRANTHAM
Interface Development
Cyberplex
> ----------
> From: Barney Wol
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 7:28 PM
> To: html-tidy@w3.org
> Subject: Re: tidy without indenting?
>
> At 16:22 +0900 13/3/01, Peter Evans wrote:
> > > Can I use tidy while leaving the indents of my page as they were?
> >
> >No. The first paragraph under the subtitle "Layout style" within
> >http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ explains not only that this isn't
> >possible but also why it can't be an added feature.
> >
> >If you're desperate to preserve a laboriously contrived layout -- and I
> >know I sometimes am -- then here is a (probably more laborious)
> >workaround. Ignore Tidy's standard output and instead read its
> >error/warning file (the file you specify after the "-f" switch), making
> >your own corrections to the original file as appropriate.
>
>
> Yes, I do this too. However, you have to watch out for a few
> things that Tidy changes without warning you about - double quote
> marks (") changed to &quot;, apostrophes to &#39;, and lone
> ampersands (&) to &amp;.
>
> While sympathising with the original request, I think it is
> outside of Tidy's original remit, which is (as I understand it) to
> correct an HTML file so it is legal. This necessarily entails
> disassembling it, and the corrected result can only be re-created to
> some defined standard, as indentation may HAVE to be changed to make
> the file legal.
>
> I think Tidy should be treated as a "first pass" engine, and
> if you want to re-edit the output to your indentation standard, then
> that is up to you. Incremental code changes can then be re-checked,
> errors noted, and the original files corrected by hand. As Mr.Evans
> says, this is a rather laborious approach, but once done, incremental
> changes are easier.
>
> Or, of course, you could learn to love the standard output
> style adopted by Tidy. :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
>